Tuesday, November 6, 2012

You can vote anywhere, but there's a catch

It's evident that, a week after Sandy, thousands of New Yorkers are still reeling from her aftermath, many of them without homes, power or, particularly on Election Day, the ability to get anywhere near their assigned polling station. Although the plight of the displaced might be prioritized over casting a ballot, the threat of missing hundreds, if not thousands, of votes has become a major issue here, in New Jersey and in the rest of the Sandy-stricken states.

For this reason, Governor Cuomo, in a statement that included the line above, declared a measure that would allow all New Yorkers to vote from anywhere in the state. But, there's a stipulation: you can only vote for the President and Senate from a different location; you cannot vote for your local elections if you're not in your own district.

Today, any displaced voter in New York can walk into a polling station, sign an affidavit and choose the next President and Senator from New York. According to Cuomo, this was an "extraordinary" but necessary compromise: "We want everyone to vote... But in the local races, if you vote in a different Assembly district, a different Senate district, your vote will not count in that district. That is the downside to the system."

So, if you want your vote to actually mean something, find a polling site in your assembly district.

But it's so important to let NYers vote for president! It's like the electoral college means anything anyway. "Hey, I just voted for Romney!" "Who cares, you're from NY!" "Hey I want to keep Obama in office!" "Who cares, let NYS take care of it for you."

Didn't he learn from the "free gas" debacle? These politicians are supposed to be so smart, but they appear to have no comprehension about infrastructure and simple human behavior. Most egregiously, they purposely ignore the fact that the current systems we have in place are fundamentally broken as it is. We all knew there were going to be dozens of horror stories about BOE poll sites even before Hurricane Sandy hit. . Stop trying to be helpful, Andrew! You're making everything worse!

What he should have done is have the workers look up the person's district online and if they wanted to vote in an assembly, congressional or state senate race, they could handwrite the names of the candidates and they would count those votes as absentee. If it means a few weeks before some of the races are decided, so be it.

GREAT... we are ALL SAFE now. two of my relatives(after 20 years of steady employment) are still without careers since 2009. REJOICE....REJOICE ....NO weekly paychecks,health care and unemployment insurance has expired.

the one with two children are on medicaid and food stamps. TERRIFIC....

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